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20 May 2016

Greece: EC approves 56 million euros to improve the hosting of refugees and migrants

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The European Commission announced on Friday that it had approved 56 million euros in emergency funding to improve Greece ability to host migrants and refugees.

13 million euros will be split between the Interior Ministry, the Administrative Reform Ministry and the National Asylum Service to boost the efficiency of the asylum processing system which is currently laborious. Another 30 million euros is to boost the United Nations High Commissioners for Refugees' work in Greece. And a final 13 million euros are going to the Greek Office of the International Organization for Migration to support the most vulnerable migrants in Greece.

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